{"id":358006,"date":"2021-05-17T03:11:45","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T07:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=358006"},"modified":"2021-05-17T12:09:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T16:09:22","slug":"facebook-blocked-in-ethiopian-since-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/358006","title":{"rendered":"Facebook blocked in Ethiopian since Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NetBlocks, an internet tracking organization, has confirmed Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been blocked in Ethiopia since yesterday afternoon. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u26a0\ufe0f Confirmed: Network data show Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram restricted in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Ethiopia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Ethiopia<\/a>; incident comes amid renewed international condemnation over <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tigray?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tigray<\/a> conflict and the postponement of elections <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WfPSFU915I\">pic.twitter.com\/WfPSFU915I<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NetBlocks (@netblocks) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/netblocks\/status\/1394083124062130179?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p>Some customers who have access to broadband internet service have been able to open all three websites.<\/p>\n<p>Ethio Telecom said today that it has no role in the blockade. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NetBlocks, an internet tracking organization, has confirmed Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram have been blocked in Ethiopia since yesterday afternoon. \u26a0\ufe0f Confirmed: Network data show Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram restricted in #Ethiopia; incident comes amid renewed international condemnation over #Tigray conflict and the postponement of elections pic.twitter.com\/WfPSFU915I &mdash; NetBlocks (@netblocks) May 17, 2021 Some customers who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":358007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Facebook-blocked-in-Ethiopia-E1kTtjqXMAUXRNX.jpg?fit=656%2C369&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1v8i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358006"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358019,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358006\/revisions\/358019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/358007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}